Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has called an all-party meeting on Thursday to discuss the one-time settlement scheme for hefty water bills. The meeting will be held at the chief minister’s residence at 4 pm. Earlier, the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Delhi had alleged that the city government’s one-time settlement scheme for redressing...
The INDIA opposition bloc faces yet another possible crisis – over the seat-sharing bogey – after ex-Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti’s People’s Democratic Party said Monday that it is preparing to fight the 2024 Lok Sabha election – now just a few weeks away – on its own. Ms Mufti’s PDP said its...
After the central government proposed a new plan for the Minimum Support Price for crops, the farmer leaders announced that they will study the proposal in the coming two days and stated that the Delhi Chalo march has been put on hold till then. Agriculture and Farmer Welfare Minister Arjun Munda, Minister of Commerce and...
External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi have met briefly in Germany on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, their first meeting in more than six months. Video footage from the Munich Security Conference showed Dr. Jaishankar and Mr. Wang having a brief chat on the sidelines of the...
Innovation and Technology can resolve citizen’s day to day inconveniences, Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh said today.Innovation is not the domain of scientists alone, any person can foster innovation with change of mindset and approach, he said. The Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Science & Technology; Minister of State (Independent Charge) Earth Sciences; MoS...
At least 11 people trapped under the debris of a collapsed temporary structure at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in south Delhi were rescued on Saturday, officials said. The incident occurred at 11 am, police said. A Delhi Fire Services official said a call was received about the pandal (temporary structure) collapsing at the stadium. Initially,...
The national capital on Thursday noted a maximum temperature of 26 degrees Celsius, while the AQI moved to the ‘poor’ category after improvement in air quality. The city recorded a low of 8.8 degrees Celsius, two notches below the season’s average, while the maximum temperature was two notches above the normal, according to the India...
The Israel-Hamas conflict, the Ukraine war and the situation in the Indo-Pacific figured in a meeting between external affairs minister S Jaishankar and US secretary of state Antony Blinken on the margins of the Munich Security Conference on Friday. Jaishankar also met UK foreign secretary David Cameron and Josef Borrell, the European Union’s (EU) foreign...
Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari on Monday said the electric bus will be started by laying electric cable on the Delhi-Mumbai Express National Highway and the distance from Delhi to Jaipur will be covered in two hours and its fare will be 30 per cent less than a diesel bus. Addressing the...
Protesting farmers will stay put at the two borders of Punjab and Haryana over their various demands as the deadlock persisted despite the third round of talks with a panel of Union ministers. A five-hour meeting, which started around 8:45 pm on Thursday, between three Union ministers and the farmer leaders remained inconclusive. The two...